skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wars aren't won with politeness and pleasantries,
they are won by whoever has the guts to destroy
and murder first

The conflict with the Houthis isn't "war", unless we broadly define all armed conflict as "war."

It's ridiculous to reduce this to a "guts" issue. Biden and Trump won't be manning the front lines, so guts on their part doesn't play into it.

(Or maybe we should just do the ultimate, most gutsy thing ever by your logic and start nuking multiple countries)

War on the Houthis would require invading Yemen which, in the understatement of the century, would have some pretty serious and wide-ranging consequences. It would also likely play into Iran and/or Russia's hands as this would distract the US from other matters and likely galvanize Middle Eastern opposition to the US. To say nothing of the money spent and lives lost. I have not heard voices from either side of the aisle feeling that this would be remotely worth the cost.
Getting to the sun is really hard. Any object flying at earth's orbit has so much energy that you need to reduce in order to get to the center. The probe simply doesn't have enough propellant to slow down that much. The only other way that I can think of is to perform a gravity assist that would send the probe straight into the sun. And if you miss, the probe becomes a molten blob of metal that will forever continue flying in a highly eccentric orbit around the sun.
Part of the problem is that we don't ask these questions when we should be. Social media, for example, represents a unique assault on our psychological makeup that we just uncritically unleashed on the world. We're about to do it again, likely with even worse consequences.
So Eniac was a dead end? Or you believe that the cost won't go down for some reason?
If I'm getting flagged it's because HN doesn't like calling spade a spade with aggressive language. Which is fine, HN is allowed to moderate itself how it sees fit.

I'm not going to continue this diatribe. You clearly where talking about Bevy in everything but name. You clearly think Bevy and ECS as a choice for game development needs to be heavily motivated. You bashed Bevy originally. Again, you can pretend to hide behind the fact you didn't use it's exact name, but everyone who knows Rust game engines knows exactly which engine you where talking about.

If you or anyone curious wants to understand my emotions, it is from that. You bashed Bevy, and are now trying to gaslight the conversation into saying "no I didn't!" When yes... You clearly did.
List of judging opportunities to help with O-1 visa / EB-1 green card
A curated list of opportunities to judge the work of other developers.

I served as a judge for many of the programs in the list in order to improve my odds of getting a US O-1A visa--a work visa for immigrant STEM workers/entrepreneurs that doesn’t require employer sponsorship. I received the visa earlier this year and have been advising people since.

I formed this list through my personal and coaching experiences (took some trial and error to separate the good ones from the bad). If you’re looking to qualify for the judging requirement of the O-1A visa, or the EB-1 green card, I can vouch for each selection in the list.

Happy Holidays!
Court Rules Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Requirements Are on Hold
It’s hard to see how Russia’s neighbours will avoid war long term if attitudes like this exist in any significant number. It’s pretty grim.
https://archive.is/wy5Eq
That is exactly how I think about it. It’s lossy compression. Think about how many petabytes of actual information any of these LLMs were trained on. Now look at the size of the resultant model. Its orders of magnitude smaller. It made it smaller by clipping the high frequency bits of some multi-billion dimension graph of knowledge. Same basic you do with other compression algorithms like JPEG or MP3.

These LLM’s are just lossy compression for knowledge. I think the sooner that “idea” gets surfaced people will find ways to train models with fixed pre-computed lookup tables of knowledge categories and association properties… basically taking a lot of the randomness out of the training process and getting more precise about what dimensions of knowledge and facts are embedded into the model.

… or something like that. But I don’t think this optimization will be driven by the large well funded tech companies. They are too invested in flushing money down the drain with more and more compute. Their huge budget blind them to other ways of doing the same thing with significantly less.

The future won’t be massive large language models. They’ll be “small language models” custom tuned to specific tasks. You’ll download or train a model that has incredible understanding of Rust and Django but won’t know a single thing about plate tectonics or apple pie recipes.
Thanks for your comments. I didn't realize settings allowed you to turn those off. Now fixed. Hallelujiah.
Ironically, my experience with people close to me is that obsession with labels is actually a pretty decent hallmark of autism. One family member, upon receiving a new "diagnosis" (usually self-diagnosed) actually changes their affect to become more like the textbook examples for that label. (And has done this more than once.) It can be very frustrating to deal with. This person has been diagnosed as on the autism spectrum, and the best explanation I've heard for their behavior is that it's masking gone rather wrong. This is an extreme example, but the general map-territory-label confusion is something I've seen a lot in people I know with a neurodivergence.
Twilight of the Books
Oh come on yourself.

Companies including Bloomberg and Microsoft (neither in or a part of Silicon Valley), also big to small companies all over the world, built on JS once Moore’s Law and browser tech combined to make Oddpost, and then gmail, feasible.

While the Web 2.0 foundations were being laid by indie devs, Yahoo!, Google, others in and out of the valley, most valley bigcos were building “RIAs” on Java, then Flash. JS did not get some valley-wide endorsement early or all at once.

While there was no command economy leader or bureaucracy to dictate “JS got on first but it is better to replace it with [VBScript, likeliest candidate]”, Microsoft did try a two-step approach after reacting to and the reverse-engineering JS as “JScript”.

They also created VBS alongside JS, worked to promote it too (its most used sites were MS sites), but JS got on first, so MS was too late even by IE3 era, and IE3 was not competitive vs. Netscape or tied to Windows. IE4 was better than Netscape 3 or tardy, buggy 4 on Windows; and most important, it was tied. For this tying, MS was convicted in _U.S. v. Microsoft_ of abusing its OS monopoly.

Think of JS as evolution in action. A 2024-era fable about the Silly Valley cartel picking JS early or coherently may make you feel good, but it’s false.
Reminds me of cookie banners. Annoy you into submission

(I know the EU doesn't mandate annoying cookie banners but unintended consequences etc)
Thank you for the advice

I do def need to make the landing page better

The API isn’t yet open, but the docs for the nextjs/react at https://docs.flags.gg
I guess you could write a pure technological history that just says what was invented and how it works, but that would be awfully dry and rather uninformative. As soon as you start discussing who did it and why, you’re in the realm of politics, even if not the presidents-and-kings sort of politics.

This site is a perfect example. It presents itself as a technical forum where politics is occasionally tolerated but never the focus. And yet you could probably write an entire book about the politics behind the name of the site itself, never mind its history, rules, culture, and means of support.
Tech Writing Predictions for 2025
Red state consequences
I know what you're saying! Clearly the vast majority of these drone sightings seem to be regular aircraft.

Some do not seem to be, although my skepticism is high because I have seen a lot of faked UFO videos over the years and faking points of light in the night sky is like, the easiest thing to fake in a fake video/photo.

While I think this is unlikely, we could imagine that whoever is doing shady drone stuff might want to actually observe some basic safety rules, ridiculous as that sounds.

Suppose for a second that these drones are a "flex" from China/Russia/whoever. Causing a midair collision with an aircraft because they're running dark, or risking the chance of that because they're running dark, is a lot more serious than just flying some drones.

And if it's aliens, hey, maybe they're just trying to... uh, fit in by mimicing our airplanes' safety lights? =)
Show HN: NeatShift – Organize Windows files with symbolic links
Hi HN,

I built a lightweight Windows tool to organize files by relocating them while maintaining their accessibility through symbolic links.

The idea came from needing to tidy up my cluttered file system without breaking file paths used by other applications. NeatShift solves this by automating symbolic link creation whenever files or folders are moved.

Key Features:

- Relocate files without breaking existing references.

- Automatic system restore points for added safety.

- Modern Windows 11-style UI with drag-and-drop support.

- Manage and validate symbolic links easily.

It’s free, open source, and still evolving, so I’d love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or contributions!

GitHub: [https://github.com/BytexGrid/NeatShift](https://github.com/B...

Thanks for checking it out—I’m happy to answer any questions or hear ideas for improvement!
Show HN: I've Made a Modern Feed Reader App with Tauri
I've made this app as a side project for learn Rust and motivated by RSS. The app accomplish the basic features of a feed reader:
- Pulling Entries
- Organize in folders
- Filters
- Mark as read
- Full text search
- Offline just works
and more. I have big plans for it, including add IA and new features.
I want to make RSS great again, it is a excellent technology. I write more about it in a blog post: https://a-chacon.com/en/project/2024/12/26/chaski-feed-reade...
The RotoZipper
the difference is the scale of harm - a single person does not have the reach of OpenAI. regulations may be coming sometime in the future, but have all edge cases been accounted for? do we even know all the edge cases where an LLM could give life-ending advice to someone?
Pretty much. It should be considered rude to send AI output to others without fact checking and editing. Anyone asking a person for help isn’t looking for an answer straight from Google or ChatGPT.
Can your brain see the dishwasher without your eyes?
People pay to use a financial advisor. Isn't that another person?
He's been at it since May 2008 and the latests updates on instagram are from this year: https://www.instagram.com/luca.iaconi.stewart/
wait, what? you applied for a job you had just gotten fired from?
Photo Storage
> Russia and the West cannot seem to escape a death-march to war is that Russia is so often conflated with the USSR.

Do you think that invading your neighbours might be a contributing factor? We are in a thread about Russia shooting down an airliner, again. It’s pretty amazing to claim equal culpability here.
lineage os works well on the pixel 5 - cheap (obsolete) phone that more than matches my needs.
Using kernel TLS would reduce size but is it compiled into all Linux kernels by default, e.g., Alpine Linux used to disable it
It’s also much easier to do less damage on the drone itself by shooting it over water than land. Honestly I think that played a major factor where they shot it down.
Why create new art when we already have galleries full of it?
AESA radars send radar impulses on different frequencies that appear to the observer to be random (and thus hard to figure out and jam).

They could use something similar for communication. Send the first byte on a frequency, the second byte on another one, etc.... The frequencies could be calculated to be un-distinguishable from the background radio radiation. Of course, both the sender and the receiver have to agree on this mechanism.
As mentioned in the blog, iterating on generating a diagram from a repo kind of defeats the purpose. The information is in the repo; if the LLM isn't going to analyze it properly, you might as well just tell it exactly what to diagram (like in the previous section on "whiteboarding"). It is much more capable at that.

If you have some examples of an LLM doing better, by all means please share.
Why does web conferencing software need to scan for local devices on my network?

That’s the real question. Thanks for giving me the option to deny that request.
> Anyone tried the Fairphone?

I wish I could say yes. Sadly, they still don't sell to the USA. They tried doing some sort of partnership a bit ago with the last Fairphone and an USA vendor but it seemed to not go very far. Can't even get the latest phone from them, and they have some sort of custom OS on it.
Hashicorp Vault (had to use my own API key as the repo is fairly large): https://gitdiagram.com/hashicorp/vault

Diagram could maybe have a bit more detail but what is there looks accurate! Really cool stuff OP!
Would it be wrong to say that people routinely die in car accidents in general? Not really, it's quite a common cause of death. And Tesla's systems have statistically similar death rates. They're reasonably safe when compared to people. But honestly, for a computer that never gets tired or distracted, that's pretty shit performance.
It is still shrouded by the spectre of the political
When it comes to international crime, nations may only have a fraction the resources for their justice systems and will explicitly defer to the US because not only will the US often prosecute more aggressively, the Department of Justice has the money to outlast wealthy defendants' delay tactics.

For example, UK's Ministry of Justice has 1/6th the financial resources of the US's Department of Justice.

One notable example of this is with child pornography prosecutions. Many countries do not have a dedicated child pornography specialist units capable of digital forensics and analysis where the US does. So various international ministries and departments of justice will team up with the US, feeding info back to Virginia and even permanently stationing personnel there to act as liaisons, during very complex child pornography investigations.

Additionally, many countries will threaten extradition to the US to gain plea deals.

Finally, you may have missed the final paragraph:

>The former finance officer of Terraform Labs, Hon Chang-joon, was extradited to South Korea in February, after serving four months in prison in Montenegro over fraud charges.

South Korean imperialism?
If Iran launched drones againt Israel and Israel shot down a civilian airliner ... how would that be spun
They sort of self-select by the ability to earn enough to afford living in a city like NYC. There's enough low-income n-th generation inhabitants though to form a control group.
Wi-Fi and the Problem with Radar (DFS)
This lines up well with Google's definition of "quality" when it comes to search engine content, which is it must be non-trivial to reproduce. Content generated by prompting LLMs is likely easy to reproduce, and hence lower quality, and hence likely to get demoted in search results.
Update Firefox to prevent add-ons issues from root certificate expiration
Here you go:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/201323

Celebratory gunfire incidents were included, but only make up 4.6% of the total.

In approximately one year:

>Altogether, 317 persons received stray bullet injuries;

>142 (44.8%) were female, and 176 (55.5%) were outside the age range 15 to 34 years.

>Most individuals (258, 81.4%) were unaware of the events leading to the gunfire that caused their injuries.

>Many (129, 40.7%) were at home; most of these persons (88, 68.2%) were indoors.

>Sixty-five persons (20.5%) died, 18 (27.7%) of them at the shooting site and 55 (84.6%) on the day they were shot.

>Fourteen persons received nonfatal injuries by secondary mechanisms.
>> I still use my representations formed as a kid, I don't seem to make new ones when I learn new info

Very interesting; why do you think that is?
I don’t think so. They even double down on the button: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42525040.
the val.town way doesn't require you to open your laptop... it's just "lighter" than having a whole terraform infra
Yep. That comment was when I stopped using Alacritty.
Workers have been replaced with machines many times over the last 250 years, and these fears have always been widespread, but never materialized.

I concede that this time it could be different, but I'd be very surprised while I starved to death.
Never said it was, and I know nothing to understand what happened here.

I'm just saying, people should pause and reflect before jumping on the conspiracy theories immediately. It was similar with someone else recently. "If you're reading this know that I would never commit suicide". People immediately sprung to the conspiracy.

But I don't presume to know what happened here.
yes, basically just asked the val.town AI bot to write it, probably need a few bugfixes here and there, but the idea was to show that there are services that do that in 50 lines of codes, rather than spanning a big infra
I'm not a lawyer, but I'd be filing a fraud complaint. They had to have known this yesterday but still sold you a service. At least, that's the argument I'd be making, and I doubt the Bench team will have the bandwidth to dispute complaints right now.
I hate the phrase "DRM-protected" because it makes it sound like a good thing. I wish they'd say "DRM-encumbered" or something like that instead.
This author does not seem to understand extroversion vs introversion - it relates entirely to your inner experience not your behaviors, and cannot be changed. An introvert can enjoy and be good at social interaction, and use it effectively at work- but they will still be an introvert, and as such will need to ration the energy social interaction uses. This is not “being an extrovert.” Many very successful people that are skilled at networking and social interaction are introverted.

I like to point out Captain Picard from Star Trek as an (obviously fictional but quite realistic) character that is introverted, yet renown for social and negotiation skills.

When people talk about “becoming extroverted” they usually mean developing social skills, overcoming social anxiety, and/or overcoming antisocial attitudes. All of those things are completely orthogonal to introversion.
Definitions and Motivation: Features, Directions, and Superposition
Yes!

Simply talk with other people about music. Recently, work ended up with a co-worker having great sound and a love of music greater than my own at present. I thought, "Hey, maybe this is good for me." and said, "Go for it, play what you like."

The result?

We've had a couple year convo about music of all kinds, both of us finding new music we love that we would never have found by ourselves, or via Spotify.

In the end, human to human chatter about the art of music, what we crave, what we feel, see, think beats these computed attempts to achieve the same.

Simply start talking with your friends and be adventurous.
If the project is actively maintained after 10 years, it means he created a sustainable foundation.

If you're aware of specific open issues with the project, identified by the founder or others, please share details.
Exactly. Or even "you don't have a right to a platform".

You can speak your mind. That doesn't mean YouTube is obligated to broadcast it for you, nor does it mean your speech is being suppressed if they choose not to.
Will be interesting to see what this looks like in the cooler seasons. Temuco and Santiago especially are in bowls, and with lots of diesel vehicles and woodburning stoves, these cities are very smoggy in the winter.
From what I have seen, most of the jobs that LLMs can do are jobs that didn't need to be done at all. We should turn them over to computers, and then turn the computers off.
My guess is it's correlational. It's almost always correlational. Remember the knowing a second language reduced risks of dementia, turned out it was correlational. The real cause was under diagnosis in immigrants who were disproportionately more likely to speak a second language.

Still worth investigating further but dollars to donuts it's not causal.
LineageOS is stellar on my Sammy S5e - pretty perfect comic tablet imo (ultralight, OLED, high res, external storage)
In a way, liking the job is part of the compensation package. That's why places like game development and SpaceX can pay little for bad working conditions and still have enough applicants.

It's only really an issue if you get tricked by a facade or indoctrinated into a cult. For companies that are honest the dynamic is perfectly fine
> Current AI systems have no internal structure that relates meaningfully to their functionality

In what sense is the relationship between neurons and human function more “meaningful” than the relationship between matrices and LLM function?

You’re correct that LLMs are probably a dead end with respect to AGI, but this is completely the wrong reason.
My local CPA had previously guided me to using Bench. "Accountant" and "bookkeeper" are separate disciplines. My accountant manages my tax filings and other complicated transactions. The bookkeeper makes sure all our ledgers balance out.
Perhaps if you're interested in bankrupting yourself fighting against Google's legal budget.
> Having a worldview is a political act.

Are you in the USA? This is just something they promulgate in the educational system, along with the idea that there is always room for another opinion that is just as valid, even after domain experts have reached consensus using rational evidence.
The Right to Repair and Air Quality Monitors
The boba tea result alone makes me want to never drink that again. Was a fun little treat while it lasted…
The Boba Guys result is a real kick in the nuts. Using a shitty paperish straw for the environment but the core product being so high in these tests.
Thats really cool! I'd love to get into type-writers, there is something great about the fact that you can't undo your mistakes, and have to finish your flow.

And, if it ever breaks - you get the joy of mechanical fixes!

What are you currently writing about?
> If more than the € 30,000 required to date is donated, if the legal costs are lower or if court costs are repaid, all payments received in excess will be used for the statutory purposes of the Chaos Computer Club e.V.. Please note that the CCC e.V. is not formally recognised as a non-profit organisation.

That is one sure way to make people not donate to the cause. I want to support the people, but I don't want my money to go elsewhere, and there is no way of knowing how much has been raised to date or guarantees to get the funds back when the legal costs eventually get covered by Newag. The only guarantee stated is that they will definitely use money for something else. Not OK.
> I'd pay a healthy amount for it.

I think unfortunately while a lot of people claim they would do so, in actuallity they still have a limit on how much they would fund such an endeavor, and there's not enough such people that care to properly fund the amount of work it is to maintain such a large amount of code as exists to support modern smart phones.
I'm really curious about something, and would love for an OpenAI subscriber to weigh in here.

What is the jump to O1 like, compared to GPT4/Claude 3.5? I distinctly remember the same (if not even greater) buzz around the announcement of O1, but I don't hear people singing its praises in practice these days.
Probably the most secure mobile OS available to the public right now.